by John Grisham · Arrow · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099537038
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«A Time to Kill» is the legal thriller by John Grisham, published by Arrow in paperback (752 pages, in English).
In Clanton, Mississippi, a ten-year-old African American girl is raped by two white men; her father, Carl Lee Hailey, kills the attackers and is tried for it. Lawyer Jake Brigance defends him while the case ignites racial tensions, attracts extremists, and turns the trial into a battle for justice.
First installment in the Jake Brigance series; it was adapted into a film with Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey. The work was originally published in 1989.
For readers of legal suspense and courtroom novels with racial and social tension.
John Ray Grisham Jr. is an American writer, lawyer, and former politician, known for his best-selling legal thrillers. According to the American Academy of Achievement, Grisham has written 37 consecutive number-one fiction bestsellers, and his books have sold 300 million copies worldwide. Along with Tom Clancy and J. K. Rowling, Grisham is one of only three Anglophone authors to have sold two million copies on the first printing.
